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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1965
Page
9
Navy officials recount Sea Lab I disaster near Bermuda in January 1964. Four divers faced a fatal leak at 193 feet as a damaged rope pin nearly clamped shut the surface hatch. Chief petty officer Sanders Manning plugged the hole with his thumb to save the crew.
Kansas City AP dispatch reports Anthony Bowman, 20, was shot and killed early today during an attempted holdup of a liquor store customer. Police say several menaccosted Luther Evans, 43, as he began entering the store. owner Tony Balano, 67, grabbed a gun and intervened.
Elwood Brooks, 77, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Denver, died Friday night of an apparent heart attack. He chaired Central Bank and Trust Co. and had been a University of Colorado regent. Brooks led local groups, including the Denver Downtown Improvement Association, and served as a former Kansas bank commissioner.
Prices list from Investment Company and Barret Fitch North & Co show gains in cattle hogs and grains. Wheat at 1.46, corn 1.22, Milo 1.90, soybeans 2.85, barley 0.85, oats 0.80. Eggs and butter steady, live fryers and wholesale eggs quoted, cattle and hogs up versus last week with steers 19.25 23.50, hogs 16.75 17.50 for various weights. Sheep lambs up 75, ewes up 1.00, feeders 17.00 18.50.
Mrs Musetta Roberts 55 of 1901 N H died early this morning at home. Cause of death choking by aspiration. Born March 18 1909 in Atlanta Nebraska lived much of life in Lawrence. KU graduate 1933 managed Hartfelds store near campus 1933 to 1952. Funeral 3:30 p m Monday Rumsey Funeral Home Rev Edwin F Price in charge. Burial Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors husband Ray B Roberts Jr and mother Mae Brown both at home.
Memorial Hospital notes a series of residents and births including Mrs Bernice Winter at 1133 Vermont and Jacqueline Thirsk with a baby boy at 1417 East 15th. Other names appear with addresses in Eudora Wellsville Tonganoxie and Grantville, plus Mr and Mrs Kenneth Evers and Mr and Mrs Melvin Soper reporting new sons today.
Donald C. Dawson travels from Saigon to Bien Hoa and Thai Hung seeking his missing brother Lt. Daniel Dawson, an Air Force pilot lost on a November reconnaissance mission. He offers a 1300 dollar reward and continues leafleting villagers, hoping Viet Cong cooperation returns his brother alive or finds the wrecked plane.
United Nations officials report rising backing for a plan to entrust U Thant with guiding the peacekeeping effort. Britain and other nations back the scheme to avoid a U S Soviet clash over voting rights and to prevent a collapse of the General Assembly. The proposal, handed to Thant by Lord Caradon, would have a 21 nation working group review past present and future operations while the Assembly recesses, with Thant coordinating consultations with major powers and regional groups.
Washington AP reports a small 11 pound plasma pinch engine with 12 pounds of equipment may test this year in a Navy satellite. The device uses electric current and a magnetic field to pinch plasma, producing thrust sufficient to maneuver orbiting satellites and potentially propel spacecraft after launch by conventional rockets.
The annual dinner meeting of the Douglas County Beef Breeders Association will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Little Banquet. Wilbur Levering of WIBW Topeka will speak. Officers are Claude Beeks Baldwin president Don Palmateer Route 4 vice president and Carol Martin Route 2 secretary treasurer. Directors are Charles Walter Richland and Gene Dimick Lawrence.
In New York AP reports ex wife Virginia Baker, 20, describes Eugene McDonald, 23, heir to Zenith Radio fortune, as loving and optimistic. They wed Feb 29 in Las Vegas and divorced three months later. His death in Tucson involved a back head wound, wrists cut, a .22 pistol nearby. an inquest set for Monday.
A list of names appears with roles and affiliations including John Schuler Dan Jansky Harold Krogh Bob Miller John Suder Dwight Sickles and Harry Starks representing Fidelity Union C L A Prudential Farmers & Bankers Ohio National at a function.
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